1,846 Comments for Linton State Hospital

What I would like to know is if these machines ever hindered some patients from improving? I know that there were people that absolutely needed/need these to survive, but did some people get better?

There are many different kinds of bravery. Hurrah to you Yaggy! Too confining for me!

Really creepy! It looks as though it is expectantly waiting to gobble someone up!

Maybe the title should be "PlasterLESS".

It makes me feel like a prisoner in a dungeon looking up at the only light of the day filtering down to the dank depths of depravity.of

Is this where people gave blood? It would be appropriate!
Was there any writing identifying this area?

My mother had polio. She got it the year before Dr. Salk invented the polio vaccine. Polio was highly contagious. Those who had it had to be quarantined until the threat of passing on it on had passed. My mother still to this day walks on crutches. She never did require an iron lung. Her paralysis was one vertebrae below the one that would have caused her to use the iron lung.

You're right Janice! A cousin of mine was only 17 and had polio, came down with it right before her senior prom. I remember my Mother telling me she wasn't allowed to see her. Thankfully my cousin fully recovered.

Plenty of room for more - plenty of room. Come on over to the Forum and fire one up with us. :-)

its ok lynne, we still love you, and besides you can love weed, but weed will never love you back, once again trust me,

P.S. can i be in the opacity family that youse guys seem to have here?

Kemper - maybe its left over chinese food from the night before lol jpjp

i was in one of those for nearly a year, my best friend stephanie from the hospital came to talk to me everyday tho, i was 15 and i remember the first night i was in it, the staff actually let stephanie sleep on a cot next to me because i was so scared, the only reason they let her do it was because i was threatining to start screaming, i was already crying which was not good for me since i was frail and couldnt breath very well at all on my own

it looks a bit like a sock ontop of a shop vac, if you ask me,

Dang! I was looking for a little excitement, romance, and glamour in my old age. :-(

Lynne - its a normal cigg actually, the ash just hasnt been tapped off, trust me, i know these things >_< hehe im a second generation hippie,

If you look through the comments on this set of pix there is a gentleman who has written in who still uses one at times, although his current one is much smaller. He has offered people the opportunity to look at his website and chat with him - a very nice fellow name of Henry.

P.S. He tells a pretty funny story about having been in a larger one as a child and the machine started to suck him in one night and he had to call for help. 8`-)
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